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English Dialect Dictionary

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collection of dialects

  • Nathan Bailey's definition of “oats”
    In dictionary: Specialized dictionaries

    …collecting culminated in the splendid English Dialect Dictionary of Joseph Wright in six volumes (1898–1905). American regional speech was collected from 1774 onward; John Pickering first put a glossary of Americanisms into a separate book in 1816. The American Dialect Society, founded in 1889, made extensive collections, with plans for…

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